woman who said to his face that obama was an arab. but he was a prisoner all of those years in hanoi. romney has never served his country. the only prisoner he's been captive of are the right wing haters that are smelling up the republican campaign. and that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "politicsnation" with al sharpton starts right now. >> thanks, chris, and thanks to you for tuning in. 13 days until election day. here's where the race stands. the "new york times" 538 blog shows president obama leading the national poll average with 50% of the popular vote. mitt romney has 48.9%. and according to 538, if the election were held today, the president would win re-election well 288 electoral votes. romney would get 250.

it takes 270 votes to win the white house. a brand new ohio poll gives the president a five-point lead in that crucial state propelled by a two to one average in early voting. as of tonight, 6.5 million people have already voted in this election. with over a million voting in just the last 24 hours. we'll have much more on the early vote later on in this show. but we start with tonight's lead. hiding in plain sight. we know the republican party has been taken over by its far right wing and mitt romney has been dancing as fast as he can to present a moderate face to the country. he did it in the debates and he's trying to do it in the home stretch of this election. but i don't think it's going to work. that's because the extreme views of his party just keep poppinging up at the most inconvenient moments.

today is the issue of abortion and the radical anti-women views on full display. here's a candidate romney supports, indiana candidate for senate richard mourdock. >> i believe that life starts at conception. i've struggled with this but life is a gift from god and even when life begins in that horrible situation, that it is something that god intended to happen. >> pregnancy from rape is something that happened. he says he stands by them. good luck attracting women voters, sir. this all presents an awkward challenge, though, to moderate mitt romney, especially since early this week he did an ad

supporting mourdock. >> this fall i'm supporting richard mourdock. there's so much at stake. i hope you'll join me in supporting richard mourdoctor u.s. senate. >> i hope you'll join me supporting richard mourdock. so what does romney say now when mourdock says rape is what god intended? >> governor romney disagrees with mr. mourdock and mr. mourdock's comments do not and flekt governor romney's views. we disagree on the policy regarding exceptions for rape and incest but we still support him. we still support him. the romney campaign will not ask the ad to be pulled. why? because they share the same extreme views on abortion that are being -- becoming mainstream in the gop.

>> i believe that life begins at conception. >> would you have support the cons r constitutional amendment that life is at conception? >> absolutely. >> i think when life begins at that horrible situation of rape, it's something that god intended to happen. >> i've always adopted the idea that the method of conception doesn't change the definition of life. >> this is an extreme party. and this is an extreme candidate. he picked a running mate as far to the right on women's issues as you can get. a guy who wrote the redefined rape law with the legitimate rape todd akin. mitt romney and the gop is selling you a haunted house and for the next 13 days they are trying to hide the skeletons and ghouls in their closet. joining me now, congresswoman jackie spear, democrat from california and nia-malika henderson, political reporter for the washington post. thank you both for being here

tonight. >> thank you, reverend. >> congresswoman, governor romney still endorses richard mourdock. what does that say? >> i think what it says is mitt romney is embracing the extremist apportion party of the republican right wing. it's not just mourdock. it's todd akin, joe walsh, a number of candidates who say women who ra raped should not have the choice to terminate the pregnancy. and there there are as many as 1.3 million rapes in this country. some 30,000 of those victims will become pregnant. >> now, does it bother you, then, given the extremism that is being represented, that he has put this moderate face on? does it worry you or get away with it?

>> well, i hope the american people won't stop with that. he was holding olive branches in his hands and his position on women issues is truly unclear and with the gender gap being where it is right now, i think women need to scrutinize what he says and does and when he keeps flip-flopping like this, this is not someone who has integrity. >> nia-malika, when you look at the gender gap in swing states, it shows romney in major trouble. in ohio, the president leads by 15 point. in iowa, it's 19 points. in wisconsin, he leads by 18 point among women. a real gender gap and it appears that women understand that mr. romney has an extreme past on women's issues himself. let me show you some of romney's past on this and get your reaction to the polls and mr.

romney's statements in the past. >> do i believe the supreme court should overturn roe v. wade? yes, i do. if i'm president of the united states, i will encourage pro-life policies. >> nia-malika? >> well, that, that is pretty much a highlight reel of mitt romney's positions in regard to women's health. in regards to abortion, he has, over the last couple of days, angered some social conservatives because he seems to have moved to the center of abortion and there isn't any legislation that would go to the top of his agenda in regards to abortion but there you have him talking about roe v. wade and promising to appoint supreme court justices that would likely seek to overturn roe v. wade. you have had democrats very much hit mitt romney hard in a lot of these swing states and i think in part that underscores and

certainly exploits the gender gap that you see in those swing states. not only women, but i think men probably would have a problem with politicians talking about rape, discussing it as a political talking point, as a sort of abstract political idea rather than a real felt traumatic and tragic event that far too many women experience. and this is something that romney and these waning days of the campaign has had to deal with. he, of course, is going to remain on the air in those days supporting richard mourdock and we'll see that in the swing states. >> congresswoman, in light of that, what is also striking is that aides to governor romney tell the "new york times" that they are trying to convince mr. romney is not very conservative on women issues. they are finding that undecided women are, quote, troubled by

whether mr. romney's positions on issues like abortion and contraception were too unyielding. so with these hardened views, supreme court justices he would appoint, he wants to overturn row versus wa roe versus wade, they are trying to act like to undecided women voters, oh, he's not that conservative. >> know, what is really amazing to me is how he could have said all of these things, know he said all of those things and then refudiate them later on. so i think during national domestic violence awareness month, the irony should not be lost on any of us why rape for some reasons among these republicans is not a purpose or a reason to seek an abortion. >> now, you've been on the front lines in the congress for at least the last two years

fighting for a women's right to choose. you've been one of the front line leaders in this. what has that been like in the congress and have you had to encounter congressman ryan, the vice presidential nominee in these battles? >> there have been 55 votes to reduce women's access to health care or reproductive health in this congress. one a week. there has been an onslaught of efforts to try and erode the rights that women have to discuss their health care with their physician. it is not a place for government. it is a place for a woman to have with her physician and it should stop there. >> one a week. that's what this congress has been dealing with. one a week trying to stop women from having the rights over their own bodies. congresswoman jackie speier,

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13 days to go and it's all in. we know it's a close race and the president is making sure he gets the notes out with a marathon trip across the country. he started in iowa. from iowa he went to denver for a rally this afternoon. at this hour he's making his way to los angeles where he's taping a spot on the tonight show. after that it's on to las vegas for another rally and he'll be flying on the red eye to tampa overnight.

tomorrow, the phase continues. hitting four cities before returning to d.c. in the evening. >> this is the first stop on our 48-hour fly around campaign marathon extravaganza. but hi to start in iowa to ask you for your vote, to ask you for your support so we can finish what we started. >> the vice president was also on the trail today. and he had some advice for a young supporter. >> these guys have become so tied to special -- look, i don't blame that baby for crying. you know what, she just realized what it means if romney gets elected. she was out there, god love her. hi, baby. how are you? it's okay. he's not going to get elected.

you're going to be okay. >> it's okay. he's not going to get elected. so for his part, governor romney keeps saying, he's got the momentum. >> i'm not sure whether you've been watching tv but we've had a number of debates lately. have you noticed that? and you know, they have really propelled our campaign. >> they have supercharged our campaign. i've got to tell you that. >> you're seeing this movement growing. >> there's no question about it, we're seeing more and more enthusiasm, more and more support. >> you say something enough times, you will even start to believe it. and actually, that has become part of the conventional wisdom. romney momentum, it's a standing theme you see in headlines all over the place. everyone knows his race is close. it got close three weeks ago but the idea of romney's momentum since then is a myth.

it is just not happening. joining me now is bob shruma. democratic strategist and professor at nyu and ana marie cox. thank you both for joining me tonight. >> happy to be here. >> good to be here. >> bob, there is all of this talk about momentum but the latest poll shows president obama is up five in ohio. what about the momentum? i mean, who has it? >> i think this is an artificial construct three weeks ago and i think you and i talked about this. i wrote a column after the first debate saying, look, this has not changed the fundamental structure of the race and it hasn't. the polls tightened somewhat but in every one of these critical battleground states, if you look across the whole range of them, the president has a chance to win all of them and he's in better shape than romney. beyond that, if you look not just to that ohio poll tonight but, for example, what is happening in the gallup poll,

now it's a three-point lead and that's a six-day rolling average. so whatever surge there was as s receding and this is an old republican trick. they did in 2000, for example, saying they are going to win california, spent millions of dollars there. we refused to spend a dime. we won the state by double digits. they only got the election by stealing florida. >> now, ana marie, when you hear bob talking about swing states, let's look at that a minute. the nbc most battleground states in real clear politics, the ohio, 1.7, wisconsin up 2.7. romney's only up and florida they are tied in virginia.

where's the romney every vote matters and i think that's why you see the republicans playing this kind of mind game about momentum. this talk that, you know, obama is pulling out of south carolina. they are trying for every little vote they can, include, i guess, the vote of the immediate yeah. they are realtrying to appear t california. in reality, you know, if i was the obama team, i wouldn't be comfortable with where things are in the swing states but it's true they are ahead there and they do have, as we've been talking about, that firewall in the midwest that looks like it might hold for them pretty well. >> now, i'm with ana marie there. i don't think it's a thing of

being comfortable but i'm trying to deal with this myth that is being sold across the border. there's a momentum, bob. let me give you an example. let's look at ohio. in real clear politics, the day before the debate, first debate, president had a 5.5 lead in ohio. a week after the debate, the president had a 1.3% lead in ohio. it dropped to 1.3. today he's back up to 1.7% lead in ohio. so where's the momentum where ohio is clearly the divisive state, if not one of the divisive states. >> the first debate hurt the president. i think polls tightened. they tightened somewhat in the battleground states and the other thing is, when you do these poll numbers, the real clear politics average, there's a lot of junk in there. there are all of these polls. new people come up that nobody appears to have heard before. no one believes. i trust that "time" magazine number. it's consistent with numbers that we've seen, for example,

from nbc mar rift. i think the president is four or five ahead in ohio. this is a close election. no one can take this for granted. but he has more electoral votes. he could lose ohio and still win this election if he carried new hampshire, iowa, wisconsin. that's not at all an implausible situation. >> now, ana marie, one of the reasons why i'm dealing with this myth is, in 2000, karl rove, before the 2000 election, predicted a big win for then governor bush. he said bush would get, quote, in the vicinity 320 electoral votes and would win 50 to 51% of the popular vote compared to 44/45% for gore.

we know that gore won the popular vote and bush got 270 electoral votes to 266 for gore. so are we seeing this as a standard republican strategy, talk momentum, we're winning, we're winning, we're winning, to really try to drive out their vote and try to convince independents, go to where the winners are? >> you know, both sides do this kind of thing. both sides sort of play this mind game that i actually can never get my head around. i can't decide if what they are trying to do is convince people if they are winning or say the other side is winning so people will turn out and vote to make sure that you will win. it's a dangerous game. i think for the most part they do it to influence media coverage. i'm not sure that they are connecting with voters with this kind of talk. the message we need to get to voters is, you need to vote no matter what. it doesn't matter and it's sort of an inside baseball game but when you're competing for every vote, one way or another it's going to matter to them.

>> you, bob, an expert until rovism, what are they doing and what are they doing today? >> rove actually believes this. in 2000 i think they thought they could win. it was very expensive. $10 million on media in california and we said we're not spending a dime and refused to spend a dime. the other object they had that year was to try to get us to take resources out of florida, prex, and put resources in california. we're not going to do that. but i think people are smarter than this. all of the national polls, whatever romney gains there were are coming out, they are deflating and we're seeing the same thing in these critical battleground states. so i think this is a concocted story. i kind of agree with ana marie. i hated it and wouldn't do it in

campaigns. i think it was dumb. >> ana marie, president clinton cut a new tv ad for the obama campaign. watch this. >> the stuff some folks are saying about president obama sounds kind of familiar. the same people said my ideas would destroy jobs and they call me every name under the book. we created 22 million new jobs and turned deficits into surpluses. president obama's got it right. >> pretty effective, ana marie. >> you know, i think bill clinton has been doing some of the best campaigning of his life for obama in this cycle. i think he may be a more effective campaigner than for himself when he was running for president. you can see that he's having a good time, you can see that he really believes what he's saying. that first line where he says, this stuff that people are saying about obama, i'm pretty sure that he wouldn't have used that word in, let's say, private company. i think he probably had another word in mind. and i think this kind of thing is definitely going to work for the obama people. those people that are on the

fence have good memories of the clinton years. >> what's amazing about that is he got the whole convention speech, whole brilliant convention speech into 30 seconds. >> that's bill clinton. bob shrum and ana marie cox, thank you for your time. folks, if you want to check out the electoral college count, go to our facebook page right now. that's facebook.com/politicsnation. we linked it to an interactive electoral map. fill it out and shade with us on our facebook page. coming up, paul ryan's speech on poverty. i want to know just what paul ryan knows about the struggle of the poor. what has he done? and this republican operative was arrested in virginia for allegedly trashing voter registration form. tonight we have big news from the state's attorney general. stay with us. ood.

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obama really is. >> if barack obama opens up and gives his college records and applications and if he gives his passport applications and records, i will give to a charity of his choice a check immediately for $5 million. there's never been anything like it. we know very little about our president. >> the president's college records? that's trump's big news? folks, republicans just can't let it go. this whole vetting nonsense is just another way for them and the "new york times" reports billboards like these are popping up and calling on voters

and anti-obama messages are flooding key states and how far they can go to disgaul fi president obama. right wingers would do anything to fire up the base. but right now they seem to be turning off a lot of voters. joining me now and now syndicated radio host. >> thank you, reverend. >> dana, are we going to see even more of this kinof stuff. >> we should see more of donald trump because that was a preposterous display and even more romney folks and folks on the right were saying, okay, this guy has gone too far and it's completely absurd. and there's another thing going on with the issues bubbling up

and that i think is more sinister and more nefarious and springing up things that are basically out of centralized control. the trump thing has made himself even more of a laughing stock now. the question is, does romney have this guy come out and campaign for him now that he appears to be doing these infommercials and offering $5 million and a free toaster. >> joe, you know, the "new york times" reports that conservatives were planning a last-minute game changer for the final weeks of the campaign, they would put out a dvd in battleground states, sending it to voters through a carefully targeted direct mail campaign or an insert in sunday newspapers,

they went to the unusual length of arranging a focus group to test anti-obama films, conducted by frank lunt sfwlchlt, the well-known republican research analyst. it's being circulated by swing states right now, joe. >> let me say this about donald trump first. and if i had $5 million, i would give it to a charity to find out whether his hair is from the planet earth or from another planet. look, the man is ridiculous. you have sarah palin who is now talking about that the president is shucking and jiving and sununu who said that he's lazy and ann coulter who called him a retard and you are 100% right. they can put all they want to out there. they are playing to that small

neandrathal base and what it's doing is if there was apathy, at least in my community, they have shaken that apathy and people are going out in groves even early voting in groves. so i agree with dana. keep it up because all you're doing is even letting independent voters know, reverend sharpton, that these kinds of people are not associated with president obama. they are associated with his opponent. >> well, i think they don't even understand they are blinded in this, they don't understand they are causing a backlash and even energizing and people who were like not that energized and now all of a sudden they are really angry and offended.

and a lot of it came back from how ugly and it's not something particularly new. it's something called dirty tricks of the trade and it comes up and the radar screen and the problem is, this is exactly what is contrary happening with independent voters and the ring wing anymore and the reverse effect and it has to be offending the centrist voters. >> romney has said the other night that he was a peaceful guy and want world peace and whatever we have to do. you have, as you mentioned,

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and they are thinking, look, and really want to be associated with this and that's what is going on and i'll say this, i wish you good luck down in florida. i know you're going to be down there this sunday. this is a classic example and going city to city, county to county. >> joe madison, thank you for your time tonight. >> coming up, paul ryan's poverty. he stages phony photo ops, and first, this republican republican operative accused of literally throwing away voter fraud. that's next. in charge of their. how they'll live tomorrow. for more than 116 years, ameriprise financial has worked for their clients' futures. helping millions of americans retire on their terms.

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the last time paul ryan tried to show how much he cares about poor people, he embarrassed himself. remember this visit and there is already wash dishes and it was a photo op that came very close to making mr. ryan look like a

first-class. >> mr. ryan's concern for those in need didn't really come through that day so today he tried again. he gave a policy speech promoted by his campaign on poverty and when it was over i thought maybe he should stick to washing pots. >> we believe that americans are in instead of a stag nabt government. >> mr. ryan's speech was filled with platitudes to please the right wing.

watching him you couldn't help but wonder, who was he to give this speech. after all, the budget that bears his name for projects like food stamps and medicaid and pell grants, programs that in need desperately need. his policy is bad enough. but his arrogance may be worse. after all, what makes congressman paul ryan expert on communities. and giving him the experience and expertise to literally know what he's talking about in taking on the unique challenges faced by diverse communities? paul ryan's congressional district is 85% white, 7.5% hispanic, 5% black. how is he an authority on poverty representing a district where the income is 12% higher than the national average?

mr. ryan's speech today was a poor excuse for policy and he was and is ill suited to be the message. joining me now is sister simone campbell, catholic social justice group and organizer of the nuns to protest romney/ryan budget and how it would hurt the poor. sister campbell, thank you for coming on the show tonight. >> an honor to be with you, reverend. >> i found it rather shocking. he seemed to mention a few names and he has no idea about really how hard people work and the programs create dependence. that's not our experience. that's not what we know. i keep wishing he will complete

the people we know. >> take a listen. >> wherever we are in live, rich or poor, black, brown, or white, american by chance or by choice, we are one nation. that is the promise of america. we can make it real in lives in the american, to all those americans we ask you to look at our because our cause is yours and yours is ours. >> but that contrast in the past where ryan talked, he spoke like he almost had disdain for the poor. listen to this. >> we could become a society where the net majority of americans are taker, not makers. 70% of americans want the american dream. they believe the american idea. only 30% want the welfare state. we don't want to turn this safety net into a hammock that

allows able bodied people. >> a hand up, not a hand out. he can feed himself for a life, and then all of a sudden he has this new appreciation for fighting poverty and he's not talking about how 30% of the people want a welfare state and how we've got to cut budgets. it seems very coincidental. he has a new conversion, sister campbell. >> i think it is evidence that our message is really taking hold and he needs to do something to push back. and he is employed, trying to support his family but at minimum wage. you don't make enough to get

your family out of poverty. congressman ryan doesn't have a clue about that and congressman ryan doesn't have a clue about britney who i met who is going to college because she can get a pell grant and she's working. the fact is, congressman ryan wants to strip those supports away from hardworking people. he can say these words about being concerned for everyone but he has never evidenced it. it's all been about shifting money to the top, making bigger tax cuts to the wealthy and somehow that's going to be a magic wand. the fact is, hardworking people need real answers, not this made-up theory that he's got. >> let's quickly dig down because he argues that we just don't have the money for government programs that people depend on but he has money of other things, his budget would increase military spending, his budget makes plenty of rules for tax breaks to millionaires. but the poor, no money for them.

62% of the cuts he proposed come from low income programs. >> which is shocking and should not be allowed to become policy. the fact is, getting tax cuts to the wealthy does not generate jobs. we know that for the last ten years. where are the jobs? what does make a difference are these responsible programs that help people get on their feet, get educated, and make sure that they can care for their families. the biggest single thing we can do is to raise wages, raise the minimum wage to $12 an hour and we'd get everybody out of poverty because people are working but they are still in poverty. that's wrong. that's not who we are. let's be responsible, really responsib responsible as a nation. >> sister, thank you for your time tonight. >> i really appreciate being with you, reverend. we'll be right back with a new investigation into republican voter fraud. that's next.

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there are still 13 days until election day but millions of americans are exercising their right to vote. 6.5 million people and it's having a huge impact. just look at ohio. the new "times" poll shows that president obama and mitt romney are tied among ohio voter who is have not voted yet but the president is beating romney two to one among those who have already gone to the polls. 60% to 30%. that gives the president a five-point advantage over ohio. and we're seeing some positive signs in the fight against right wing voter suppression. after days of public pressure, virginia's republican attorney general finally announced he'll investigate a gop operative literally accusing voters of

voter forms. lawmakers are also asking the justice department to get involved. they want to know if the accused man, collin small, was part of a larger network of voter fraud on the right. and in ohio, volunteers are organizing to prevent voter intimidation on election day. they are training people to monitor groups like true to vote who send poll watchers to intimidate voters on election day. it's incredibly important that all americans can have their voices heard. no matter what the distraction, no matter what your theory, no matter what the intimidation, you must vote. you will be in florida this weekend with the bishop and others who have what they call operation lemonade where they take the lemons and turn it into lemonade. don't let them dissuade you. whatever you must do, you must